Humanity’s next great expansion is no longer a thought experiment. It is unfolding in real time in orbit, around the Moon and ...

It was bound to happen, and now it has. Scientists in the U.K. have asked for permission -- legal, regulatory permission from a national governing body - to genetically alter a human embryo. "It is up ...

The International Human Frontier Science Programme (HFSP), a non-profit organisation supporting frontier research in the life ...

We are now entering the second quarter of the 21st Century, and, especially in the last years, the achievements made by ...

The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) parties meet every year at the Conference of the Parties (COP) to negotiate and agree action on how to tackle climate change, limit ...

Modern societies are still very much dependent on oil and gas resources for their smooth functioning. However, natural oil and gas resources are limited and non-renewable. In order to keep up with the ...

Eighty years ago, presidential science advisor Vannevar Bush delivered to President Harry S. Truman a remarkable report entitled “Science-The Endless Frontier.” In this report, Bush described the ...

A fundamental component of the mission of the American Chemical Society Committee on Science (ComSci) is to “engage the global chemistry enterprise to build a better tomorrow by identifying new ...

Twice a year since 1993, the famed TOP500 list project has meticulously measured and ranked the world's fastest, top-performing, nondistributed supercomputer systems. The latest list, published in ...